A 60-MINUTE WRITING CIRCLE WITH STEPH SPRENGER
The Pause: A Creative Portal for Midlife Women
THURSDAY JANUARY 15TH AT 6:30 PM MST/ 8:30 PM EST
In this one-hour therapeutic writing circle, we will free-write to a series of prompts that explore our lives as midlife women—our bodies, our relationships, the cycles of our lives, and how we nourish ourselves. This type of creative writing is designed to be more cathartic and process-focused that product-focused, but you never know when the seed of a brilliant story idea may present itself!
Our time together includes a group check-in, grounding and meditation, free-writing to prompts, sharing, and then closing the circle with connection and a Tarot card. No ideas or focus required—just bring yourself, a notebook, your favorite beverage, and prepare to nurture yourself in a quiet, comfortable space for an hour.
Why "the pause?"
To start, it's a little play on midlife—peri + menopause—which I am learning to interpret as a stage of life that invites an opportunity to pause, get quiet, and return to alignment with ourselves. I think there is so much wisdom that exists in these quiet moments, in the space between choices, in pivotal transitions, if we take the time to tap back into our own inner voice. Writing circles are a powerful way for us to access the wisdom and sovereignty of midlife womanhood.
Here's How We'll Spend Our Time Together:
- check in with the group
- do a grounding exercise and meditation
- free-write to a variety of writing prompts
- share with the group to your comfort level
- close with connection and a Tarot card
Meet your instructor
Steph Sprenger
Steph is one of the co-founders of The HerStories Project and facilitates MidCircle, our writing community for midlife women. She is a writer, producer, stand-up comic, and podcaster. Steph is currently editing an anonymous collection of essays by divorced women for Redacted: What Divorced Women Aren't Telling You, and her memoir, NOSTALGIA JUNKIE, will be published in December 2026. Steph's essays have been published in O Magazine, The Washington Post, Mutha Magazine, Motherwell, Cosmopolitan.com, The Huffington Post, and other places.
You can follow her Substack, The Reclamation Era—the intersection of midlife, neurodivergence, and single motherhood—here.
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